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{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "LL.",
"2": "sinexter"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin: sinexter\nItalo-Romance:\nItalian: sinèstro (archaic)\nNorth Italian:\nFriulian: signestri\nRomansch: sanester, seniester; saniester; schnester\nVenetian: senestro\nGallo-Romance:\nOld Catalan: senestre\nOld French: senestre\nMiddle French: senestre\nFrench: senestre, sénestre, senêtre\nNorman: s'nêtre\nOccitan: senèstre\nIbero-Romance:\nAsturian: siniestru\nOld Galician-Portuguese: sẽestro, seestro\nPortuguese: sestro\nOld Spanish: siniestro\nSpanish: siniestro",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Late Latin: sinexter\nItalo-Romance:\nItalian: sinèstro (archaic)\nNorth Italian:\nFriulian: signestri\nRomansch: sanester, seniester; saniester; schnester\nVenetian: senestro\nGallo-Romance:\nOld Catalan: senestre\nOld French: senestre\nMiddle French: senestre\nFrench: senestre, sénestre, senêtre\nNorman: s'nêtre\nOccitan: senèstre\nIbero-Romance:\nAsturian: siniestru\nOld Galician-Portuguese: sẽestro, seestro\nPortuguese: sestro\nOld Spanish: siniestro\nSpanish: siniestro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "sinistre",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: sinistre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: sinistre"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "sinister",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: sinister",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: sinister"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sinister",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: sinister",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: sinister"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "sinistre",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: sinistre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: sinistre"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "sinistro",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Galician: sinistro",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Galician: sinistro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "sinistro",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: sinistro",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: sinistro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "sinistru",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: sinistru",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: sinistru"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*senisteros"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *senisteros",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "सनीयान्",
"3": "",
"4": "more useful, more advantageous"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit सनीयान् (sanīyān, “more useful, more advantageous”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *senisteros, of unknown origin, but possibly from a euphemism from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Sanskrit सनीयान् (sanīyān, “more useful, more advantageous”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sinistra",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrior",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistimus",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "in -er",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sinister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "((sinister/sinistr<+>))",
"comp": "sinistrior",
"sup": "sinistimus"
},
"expansion": "sinister (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum, comparative sinistrior, superlative sinistimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sinister/sinistr"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "dexter"
}
],
"glosses": [
"left"
],
"id": "en-sinister-la-adj-Ng-EA1lC",
"links": [
[
"left",
"left"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "laevus"
},
{
"word": "scaevus"
}
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "1st BC, Virgilius\nmores sinistri\narboribus Notus sinister",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile"
],
"id": "en-sinister-la-adj-l9L0MXH3",
"links": [
[
"perverse",
"perverse"
],
[
"bad",
"bad"
],
[
"adverse",
"adverse"
],
[
"hostile",
"hostile"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Religion",
"orig": "la:Religion",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "2 29 70",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 34 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 24 76",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Directions",
"orig": "la:Directions",
"parents": [
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "good omen",
"text": "1st BC, Virgilius\nsinistra cornix",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "started with bad omen",
"text": "2nd century, Apuleius\nsinistro pede profectus",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"id": "en-sinister-la-adj-H0q~m1N4",
"links": [
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"auspicious",
"auspicious"
],
[
"inauspicious",
"inauspicious"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(religion) auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/siˈnis.ter/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[s̠ɪˈnɪs̠t̪ɛr]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/siˈnis.ter/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[siˈnist̪er]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "sinister"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin adjectives",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin first and second declension adjectives",
"Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"la:Directions"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "LL.",
"2": "sinexter"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin: sinexter\nItalo-Romance:\nItalian: sinèstro (archaic)\nNorth Italian:\nFriulian: signestri\nRomansch: sanester, seniester; saniester; schnester\nVenetian: senestro\nGallo-Romance:\nOld Catalan: senestre\nOld French: senestre\nMiddle French: senestre\nFrench: senestre, sénestre, senêtre\nNorman: s'nêtre\nOccitan: senèstre\nIbero-Romance:\nAsturian: siniestru\nOld Galician-Portuguese: sẽestro, seestro\nPortuguese: sestro\nOld Spanish: siniestro\nSpanish: siniestro",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Late Latin: sinexter\nItalo-Romance:\nItalian: sinèstro (archaic)\nNorth Italian:\nFriulian: signestri\nRomansch: sanester, seniester; saniester; schnester\nVenetian: senestro\nGallo-Romance:\nOld Catalan: senestre\nOld French: senestre\nMiddle French: senestre\nFrench: senestre, sénestre, senêtre\nNorman: s'nêtre\nOccitan: senèstre\nIbero-Romance:\nAsturian: siniestru\nOld Galician-Portuguese: sẽestro, seestro\nPortuguese: sestro\nOld Spanish: siniestro\nSpanish: siniestro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "sinistre",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: sinistre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: sinistre"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "sinister",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: sinister",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: sinister"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sinister",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: sinister",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: sinister"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "sinistre",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: sinistre",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: sinistre"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "sinistro",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Galician: sinistro",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Galician: sinistro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "sinistro",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: sinistro",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: sinistro"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "sinistru",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: sinistru",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: sinistru"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*senisteros"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *senisteros",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "सनीयान्",
"3": "",
"4": "more useful, more advantageous"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit सनीयान् (sanīyān, “more useful, more advantageous”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *senisteros, of unknown origin, but possibly from a euphemism from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Sanskrit सनीयान् (sanīyān, “more useful, more advantageous”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sinistra",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrior",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistimus",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "in -er",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sinister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sinister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sinistra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "((sinister/sinistr<+>))",
"comp": "sinistrior",
"sup": "sinistimus"
},
"expansion": "sinister (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum, comparative sinistrior, superlative sinistimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sinister/sinistr"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "dexter"
}
],
"glosses": [
"left"
],
"links": [
[
"left",
"left"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "laevus"
},
{
"word": "scaevus"
}
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "1st BC, Virgilius\nmores sinistri\narboribus Notus sinister",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile"
],
"links": [
[
"perverse",
"perverse"
],
[
"bad",
"bad"
],
[
"adverse",
"adverse"
],
[
"hostile",
"hostile"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"la:Religion"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "good omen",
"text": "1st BC, Virgilius\nsinistra cornix",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "started with bad omen",
"text": "2nd century, Apuleius\nsinistro pede profectus",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"links": [
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"auspicious",
"auspicious"
],
[
"inauspicious",
"inauspicious"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(religion) auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/siˈnis.ter/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[s̠ɪˈnɪs̠t̪ɛr]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/siˈnis.ter/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[siˈnist̪er]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "sinister"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: sinister/Latin 'Number' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"sinister"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "sinister",
"trace": ""
}
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